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CHINA WANTS the world to love it. In 2007 Hu Jintao, its leader at the time, announced to a congress of the Communist Party that acquiring soft power, or ruan shili, was essential for the country to become a global force. Xi Jinping, who succeeded…

It will take an unprecedented reduction in China's emissions per head to stave off severe warming Get our daily newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. WITH ITS four-tiered smog warnings and lethal dumps of…

Should Democrats win in 2020, they may not fare any better “THE REPUBLICAN PARTY will soon be known as the party of health care—you watch,” President Donald Trump declared in March. “We're coming up with plans.”…

Climbers' success rate on the world's tallest mountain is higher than any other Himalayan peak Get our daily newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. BEFORE EDMUND HILLARY and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the…

ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Baga Sola, a small town in Chad not far from the border with Nigeria, is a refugee camp called Dar es Salaam. The name means “haven of peace”, but the surrounding area is an inferno of war, spilling across the…